Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many training places were available for educational psychologists at universities in England in each of the last five years.

The department is investing £21 million to train 400 more educational psychologists over two cohorts who started their studies in 2024 and 2025 as part of the Educational Psychology Funded Training scheme. This is in addition to the £10 million already being invested in the training of more than 200 educational psychologists who began their training in September 2023.

The Higher Education Statistics Agency does not collect information on places available on courses but publishes data on student entrants across UK higher education (HE) providers. This includes data on students entering courses in different subjects, categorised using the HE Classification of Subjects system. Counts of entrants across all subjects from the 2019/20 to 2023/24 academic years are published in Table 52 of HESA’s student data for all UK providers, which are detailed below.

This data was published in January 2026.

HE providers are autonomous institutions independent from government. This means they are responsible for the decisions that they make regarding which courses they deliver.